A restricted maximum likelihood estimator for truncated height samples

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-19

  A'Hearn, Brian ^a  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropometrics; Height estimation; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mean squared error; Truncated normal distributions

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 2642550981     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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